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(2) That a copy of the foregoing Resolution be sent to Metropolitan
Borough Councils and Tuberculosis Care Committees, and that they be
asked to adopt a similar Resolution.
Replies were received from 19 Borough Councils and 14 Care Committees.
Nearly all of these expressed sympathy with the Resolution, and 15 definitely
stated that they were forwarding a similar Resolution.
As an experiment, the L.C.C. decided to put into operation, for a period
of twelve months from 1st April, 1925, a scheme, in co.operation with the
Invalid Children's Aid Association, for providing facilities for:—
(1) The removal of children from heavily infected and overcrowded
homes, during the terminal stage of a dying case of pulmonary tuberculosis
in the home.
(2) The boarding.out of children who are being discharged from
sanatorium treatment, and whose homes are inimical to the maintenance
of health.
The period of boarding.out was to be limited to three months. Later, the
scheme was extended to include weakly children, in suitable instances, whose
parents were under treatment for tuberculosis, the children, in all categories,
to be kept away as long as the conditions in the home were unfavourable to their
return. Six children were sent away from Holborn under this scheme.
H. M. MATHIESON J. G. SALMON
(Hon. Secretary) (Chairman)
Employment of Tuberculous Persons.
A problem of much difficulty in connection with tuberculosis is the employment
of tuberculous men. For the past three years the Central Fund for the
Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons has been engaged in an experimental
enquiry into the conditions under which tuberculous men living in their own homes
can with advantage be employed in hygienic workshops. Their first workshop, for
the production of high class fancy leather goods, was opened in the Borough in
Cross Street, Hatton Garden. A memorandum issued by the Fund states that the
purpose in view was not to show that tuberculous men could be employed in
a health resort, but in some central place not far from their homes and not differing
materially from their usual surroundings. The workers selected had already
undergone a course of treatment and training in a sanatorium and some, but not
all, had obtained either arrest or quiescence of the disease. They were drawn
from the industrial class and preference was (and is) given to ex.Service men.
The workshop now has its full complement, 20 workers. The hours of work are
8.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. then a rest (10 minutes); 10.45 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. then
dinner interval (one hour); work ceases at 5.30 p.m. Wages are based on hours
actually worked and the value of the output. The Annual Report of the Fund
for the year 1924 says " the experience gained in the working of the first hygienic
workshop during the last two years is convincing testimony that the scheme of